"Based on a French initiative, AMMA was built by an international scientific group and is currently funded by a large number of agencies, especially from France, UK, U.S., and Africa. It has been the beneficiary of a major financial contribution from the European Community's Sixth Framework Research Programme. The authors would like to thank the Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER) in Mali and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Senegal, for hosting two of our stations and in particular, Samba Traoré and Birama S. Coulibaly, respectively Delegate and administrator of the Station de Recherche Agronomique de Cinzana (Mali) and Tamsir Diop, responsible of the Station de Géophysique de Mbour (Senegal) for their help in logistics and local management. This work has also strongly benefited from the administrative support of the representations of IRD in Niger, Mali, and Senegal, thanks to all of them. The authors also warmly acknowledge Anaïs Féron and Cécile Gaimoz for their support to maintain and improve the SDT stations since 2012. The Sahelian Dust Transect is supported since 2010 by the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers EFLUVE and by the French national program AMMA-2. This work was also supported by the DRUMS (DeseRt dUst Modeling: performance and Sensitivity evaluation
; projet ANR-ASTRID-DRUMS-2012) research program funded by ASTRID fund call of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). The data from the SDT stations are distributed through the SDT distribution Web page: http://www.lisa.u-pec.fr/SDT/.
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Université Paris-Diderot, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France; IEES, UMR IRD 242, UPEC-UPMC-CNRS-INRA-UPD, Paris, France; IER-SRAC, Bamako, Mali; IMAGO, US191, IRD, Dakar, Senegal; IRD, Niamey, Niger
Recommended Citation:
Marticorena B.,Chatenet B.,Rajot J.L.,et al. Mineral dust over west and central Sahel: Seasonal patterns of dry and wet deposition fluxes from a pluriannual sampling (2006–2012)[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,2017-01-01,122(2)